Pawn and Two: <zanzibar> Jimmy Adam's tournament book for Ostend 1905, gives White's 14th move, as 14.Qf3. Houdini 3 prefers the same continuation for White after either 14.Qe2 or 14.Qf3, although it slightly prefers 14.Nxd6 or 14.Re1 to either of the queen moves: (-1.16) (25 ply) ...

Pawn and Two: <morfishine> At the time of my original comment, it seems that I was the one who was confused. Pachman's diagram after 16...Qf6, and his analysis at move 17, both clearly support that White's move was 16.Rdg1, and not 16.Rhg1. My comments in the 1st and 3rd paragraphs of ...

Pawn and Two: This game was included in Frank Brady's book, 'Profile of a Prodigy'. Brady tells of this game being adjourned in the evening, and the next morning a telephone call was received from Havana. Symslov was resigning, but he wanted to personally congratulate Fischer over the phone.

Pawn and Two: <zanzibar & MissScarlett> Regarding the dates for G13-15 in the Marshall - Johnston 1899-1900 match, John Hilbert in 'Young Marshall', gives January 21, 1900, as the game playing date for G15, but Hilbert did not indicate his source for that date. Hilbert provided the ...

Pawn and Two: The position before 31.b5!, was our daily puzzle position last Sunday. [DIAGRAM] The tournament book, <Groningen International Chess Tournament, 1946>, with notes from various contemporary sources, noted 31.b5! was the beginning of a fine combination, a beautiful ...

Pawn and Two: <Mateo> This game and the match were extensively annotated by Eliskases in his book; 'Wettkampf - Bogoljubow-Eliskases 1939'. I referred to Eliskases's book to make several corrections to our database, regarding the game scores, dates and sites for the match games. These ...

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